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“The Fall of the Cabal” label is best known as a multi-part conspiracy documentary series created and promoted by Dutch figure Janet Ossebaard and collaborators; the series (originally presented in ro...
The modern “lizard people” or “reptilian” conspiracy was popularized in the late 1990s by British writer David Icke, who claimed shape‑shifting reptilian aliens from systems such as Alpha Draconis con...
The “New World Order” (NWO) and “Illuminati” labels describe a long‑running set of conspiracy narratives that claim a secret elite seeks a one‑world government or global domination; these ideas trace ...
The modern “lizard people” or “reptilian” accusation has been applied to a wide range of public figures—from British royalty and U.S. presidents to celebrities and tech CEOs—and was popularized by Dav...
The Illuminati originated as a real secret society, the Bavarian Illuminati, founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776 to promote Enlightenment ideals, but it was disbanded by 1785 with no credible evidence o...
David Icke’s claims about the Illuminati and a “new world order” are widely criticized for ; critics link his most extravagant elements — such as reptilian shapeshifters and hidden mind‑control infras...
The New World Order (NWO) conspiracy theory began as a phrase used by statesmen to describe geopolitical shifts and was transformed over two centuries into a broad claim that a hidden elite seeks an a...
The historical “Illuminati” was a short‑lived Bavarian society founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776 that promoted Enlightenment ideas and was suppressed by Bavarian authorities in the 1780s (membership e...
Dan Brown’s portrayal of the Illuminati is a fictionalized, central plot device in Angels & Demons (published as Illuminati in some editions): an “ancient secret group of scientists” said to have been...
There is clear historical and scholarly evidence of groups called “Luciferians” in the past—most notably a fourth‑century movement associated with a bishop named Lucifer of Cagliari—and contemporary u...
The “Ninth Circle” is a long-running conspiracy theory that alleges a transnational Satanic/Illuminati cabal committing child sacrifice and trafficking, promoted by fringe activists and sites but lack...
The term "tampliers" likely refers to a misspelling of the , a medieval military order founded in 1119 to protect Christian pilgrims during the Crusades, distinct from the , an Enlightenment-era secre...
Conspiracy theorists seized on ’s “new world order” phrasing from his September 11, 1990 address and reframed a diplomatic, coalition-building line of statecraft as proof of a secretive global takeove...
The modern reptilian-shapeshifter conspiracy was popularized by David Icke in the late 1990s, who claimed a blood-drinking, shape‑shifting reptilian elite—linked to ancient myths and modern secret soc...
The “modern” (NWO) conspiracy theory is a layered phenomenon with roots in 18th‑century fears about secret societies such as the and , crystallized by reactionary writers like , and then reshaped in t...
The “lizard people” or “reptilian” conspiracy traces to David Icke and has been used to label a wide range of public figures — from members of the British royal family to bankers, politicians and tech...
The Fall of the Cabal franchise — a multi-part documentary and related websites — asserts a broad, transnational “cabal” composed of political elites, financial dynasties, secret societies, media acto...
The modern reptilian (or “lizard people”) conspiracy was popularized in the 1990s and especially after David Icke published The Biggest Secret in 1998, which tied shape‑shifting reptilian aliens to gl...
Secret societies such as the and provided symbolic and historical hooks that conspiracy-minded communities stitched into the modern (NWO) myth, but scholars and skeptics argue those groups’ real-world...
The LaRouche movement germinated a distinctive repertoire of conspiratorial themes—an international financier “synarchist” cabal, coded Illuminati/Freemason and Jewish-banker tropes, and a repurposed ...